Acupuncture, Manual Therapeutics, Nutrition, Herbology, Energetic Movement, and Mindful Living Pract
Providing acupuncture, cupping, guasha, chinese herbs, dietary, and lifestyle recommendations to benefit your growth and happiness. Thank you and I look forward to traveling this healing journey with you.
04/23/2026
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, your immune system relies on Wei Qi, or “defensive energy,” which protects your body from seasonal illness, stress, and environmental challenges. When Wei Qi flows freely, your body adapts more easily. When it’s disrupted, you may feel run down, get sick easily, or struggle with lingering symptoms.
Curious how acupuncture can support your immune health and overall resilience?
📅 Schedule a session to take a gentle step toward balance and harmony in your body.
Signs like persistent soreness, limited range of motion, swelling, or recurring tension indicate your body could benefit from targeted care.
Moxibustion is a gentle, warming therapy that stimulates circulation, reduces inflammation, and helps relax tight muscles. When applied to areas of stiffness or pain, it encourages healing and supports long-term mobility. Adding Nutrition & Herbal guidance can further enhance recovery and reduce recurring discomfort.
Schedule a session to address the root cause of your pain with Moxibustion and personalized care, not just the symptoms.
Supporting fertility isn’t just about timing — it’s about creating an optimal foundation for reproductive health. Acupuncture enhances circulation and hormone balance, while Arvigo Abdominal Therapy helps improve uterine and digestive function. 🌸
Herbal medicine and nutrition guidance strengthen the body from the inside, supporting energy, hormonal regulation, and overall reproductive wellness. A tailored plan ensures your body is ready for preconception and beyond.
✨ Schedule a consultation to combine acupuncture, Arvigo therapy, and herbal support for your fertility goals.
Your nervous system controls stress responses, sleep, digestion, immune function, hormonal balance, mood, and pain perception. When it’s chronically overstimulated, even everyday challenges can feel overwhelming.
Acupuncture can help regulate your nervous system by:
✔️Modulating the autonomic nervous system to improve stress resilience and heart rate variability
✔️ Stimulating the vagus nerve, promoting a “rest and repair” state
✔️ Supporting stress hormone balance, reducing anxiety and improving sleep
✔️ Improving digestion and emotional regulation
By restoring nervous system balance, acupuncture helps your body respond effectively to stress rather than becoming depleted. Many patients notice calmer minds, steadier energy, better sleep, and improved digestion 🌱
Feeling chronically stressed, struggling with sleep, or noticing digestive or mood disruptions? Booking a session is a gentle first step toward restoring balance and resilience. 🙌🏻
Back and neck discomfort often starts subtly — tight muscles, stiffness, tension headaches, or reduced mobility. Left unchecked, these symptoms can affect sleep, mood, and daily energy. 🌿
Acupuncture targets nerve and muscle pathways to reduce pain and improve circulation. Combined with Cupping, Gua Sha, Tuina, and Electrical Stimulation, treatments release tension, restore movement, and promote long-term relief.
Book a consultation to create a personalized pain management plan and start feeling your body’s best.
and felt like it began 3+ weeks earlier than that!)
Regradless of Spring's Start; In TCM, this season carries a distinct energy that touches every aspect of how we feel, move, and relate to the world around us.
🌱 SPRING & THE ELEMENT OF WOOD
Spring belongs to the Wood element — tree buds sprout, winds blow, and branches wake from the cold months before. This time of year is dynamic, upward-moving, and hungry for growth.
Just as trees push upward toward light, Wood energy within us calls us to grow, plan, and move outward after winter's inward stillness. Wood's ideal expression is like young bamboo — rooted enough to have direction, yet supple enough to bend without breaking. When Wood energy flows freely, we feel creative, clear-headed, and purposeful; when it stagnates, we feel stuck, tense, or pressured.
Spring is a natural time of transition and recalibration, for movement and activation. Sometimes occuring too quickly, too loudly, and all at the same time. In this time it's important to maintain a connection to ourselves, to keep our roots anchored as we strive for flexibility of mind, body, and spirit.
😤 THE EMOTION OF SPRING:
ANGER or KINDNESS ☺️
In TCM, every season has an associated emotion — Spring's is anger in all its forms: frustration, irritability, resentment, and the slow burn of unexpressed feeling. Anger is not the enemy; it is a signal — one that points to where Qi has become blocked or suppressed. When Liver Qi stagnates, anger and emotional reactivity increase — and emotional tension, in turn, further strains the Liver (a loop that can feel inescapable). Modern Medicine further explains the connection of anger on a physiological and neurological level. Check out our latest blog (http://aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/the-fire-within-understanding-anger-through-the-lens-of-chinese-medicine) for more understanding of how anger perpetuates and how one can find relief.
The antidote to anger in TCM is not suppression — suppression makes stagnation worse — but the cultivation of its opposite: kindness and benevolence. Anger has the power to be a great transformative force; one for the better of all. A force we could all activate with kindness and compassion. Where anger contracts and blocks, kindness opens and moves; a healthy Liver is not the organ of rage — it is the organ of courageous, purposeful action.
THE LIVER MERIDIAN —
SPRING'S GOVERNING ENERGY
Think of the Liver as the body's great orchestrator: regulating emotions, digestion, the menstrual cycle, and the tendons and sinews that allow physical flexibility. The feeling of stuckness, frustration, and anger are common signs of Liver Qi Stagnation. Symptoms can look like tension or tightness in the ribs and chest, irritability or mood swings, disrupted sleep, digestive bloating, headaches, and a sense of pressure without release.
Spring intensifies this pattern — which is why some people feel strangely worse as the weather steadies and warms.
Acupuncture is particularly effective at moving that stuck energy and circulating it to efficiently support our being into action; clearing accumulated tension along the way.
This is a wonderful time to come in for a seasonal tune-up — whether you're feeling the pressure of the season or simply want to move into spring feeling clear, flexible, and energised.
We'd love to support you.
Well wishes, The AHA Team
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04/08/2026
Herbal medicine and nutrition guidance complement treatments by addressing PMS, bloating, or fatigue. Together, these services create a personalized plan to restore balance and harmony throughout your cycle.
💚 Book a consultation to see how a targeted combination of acupuncture, TCM therapies, and herbal support can work for you.
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Pungent, aromatic herbs like basil, fennel, marjoram, rosemary, caraway, dill, and bay leaf are perfect at this time. At the same time, try to reduce overly salty foods like soy sauce, miso, or sodium-rich meats, which support yin energy rather than the expansive yang of spring.
Let your meals reflect the season’s vitality—fresh, bright, and nourishing for the whole body. 🌿
Move from heavier winter foods to lighter, vibrant options—think fresh greens, sprouts, young plants, and nutrient-dense shoots. Foods like kale, collards, broccoli, and spring onions help support natural detox pathways while nourishing your body with minerals and vitamins.
Even as soup season lingers, consider lighter soups made from spring vegetables rather than heavier winter staples. Let your plate mirror the freshness and upward energy of the season! 🌱
Spring Detox Tea and Persephone Tea are wonderful ways to begin the morning with a gentle cleanse. Supporting the liver, kidneys, digestion, and respiratory system while bringing levity and brightness to seasonal shifts.
These teas help the body adapt to changing weather, pollen, wind, and dust while offering grounding and nourishment during times of transition.
Ask us about incorporating detox teas into your spring routine.
Spring is a time of transition for the whole family. As the seasons shift from winter to spring, our bodies naturally move stored energy, balance fluids, and adjust to changing rhythms.
Acupuncture and gentle seasonal support help everyone from children to adults—stay balanced and resilient. Improved circulation, digestion, and immune support help the body flow with the season rather than fight it.
Detox isn’t about extremes—it’s about creating space for renewed energy, clarity, and well-being. Ask us how seasonal support can benefit your family this spring!
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Every day I create a story about where I’ve been, what I do, where I am going. Life I have found is one continuous process of growth and exploration. Within this, the spirit expands into the beautiful world around. Now, I know. This sounds like some woo-wooness.
But I’ve found it to be true through my own experiences.
I practice Acupuncture, Manual Therapeutics, Nutrition, Herbology, Energetic Movement, and Mindful Living Practices. I love working with people of all ages, as long as they are genuinely looking for some assistance with their own dis-ease and are willing to do the work healing requires. Often there are many levels of imbalance for each of us; physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual. It is important to work on each of these to find ourselves back in balance and feeling full rejuvenation so that we may live life to the fullest!
Daily I assist in alleviating acute and chronic pains. These may come from one of many metabolic disorders, poor lifestyle choices, sports injuries, and various traumas held within the body. Pain, whether it be physically or emotionally experienced, is often affected by both that within ourselves and that in our external world. Finding ways to rehabilitate not only our muscles and joints but also our choices and perspective are equally valuable in our long term healing.
Being in private practice since 2015; I have facilitated over 3,000 instances, learning from each diverse experience. My offerings of practice are those resources I have found to work thru my own health maintenance and dis-ease when it erupts; as well as those refined thru direct patient experience and feedback of efficacy. And there’s still more to learn. That is the simple beauty of this life. There is always more to learn.
Life is a journey, beautiful and wondrous. I look forward to sharing it with you.
You may currently contact me via Private Message to schedule an appointment in my home in East MillCreek, conveniently off of I-80 and I-215.
Appointments are available:
Monday 10-5/6
Tuesday 10-12
Thursday 10-5/6
Friday 10-5/6
Find me at Neighborhood Acupuncture and Healing Arts in Draper on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday, & Saturday. www.naahac.com 801-662-8610
